I spent a few days playing with Ruby on Rails a while back.  During the learning experience, there was one particular feature that I really liked.  It was the database migration scripts that get automatically generated for you.  I always wished I had something like this in the windows (asp.net) world.  It turns out there […]

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Tags: database, migration, schema

I am working on a feature that will let me import twitter messages to yonkly and wanted to write a test for it.  The method is private and I couldn’t get the unit test to see it.  I also didn’t want to use the private accessor class generate by Visual Studio because I was mocking […]

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Tags: mstest, tdd, testing private methods, unit testing, vsts

I was recently working on a project where there was an option to export data from the database.  The export function simply exported 2 hard-coded columns that were returned by a stored procedure into a tab-delimited text file. 
The sproc looked something like select id, name from mytable (I am over simplifying of course).  I […]

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Tags: dynamic linq, LINQ, reflection, SQL

If you have been following along, I blogged previously about my experience trying Ruby on Rails as a .net developer (here and here).  I quickly realized how different things are and that I desperately need some help, so I got myself the beta PDF version of Agile Web Development with Rails and Rails Recipes.  Both […]

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Tags: rails, ror, ruby, ruby on rails

Ok, so I thought the whole scaffolding thing was so easy and I would be done in a few minutes. I was so wrong. Nothing seemed to work right. I would call ruby script/generate scaffold Tag and it will generate all the files but the views were empty. Hmm… This is exactly what has been […]

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Tags: C#, ror, ruby, ruby on rails, syntax

Looking at my blog or resume, you will immediately know that I am a .net developer and my entire programming career has been Microsoft-centric.  I have been wanting to play with Ruby on Rails due to its inescapable popularity and I was actually surprised to learn that the language itself (Ruby) was developed in the […]

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Tags: favewares, rails, ror, ruby

This is the updated version of the Nikhil’s excellent example on how to use Ajax with ASP.net MVC.
I commented all the changes made in the code and prefixed them with //emad. So just search for //emad and you will see all the changes I made… Here is a quick list of the changes […]

Posted in .net, AJAX, Programming, Web Dev, asp.net 4 Comments »
Tags: AJAX, asp.net, code, mvc

You can use the Clip property on any item to clip its display area. For example if you have this two items rectBlue and rectRed like this

And you want to animate rectRed by sliding it out from the right side, without clipping it would look like this

But if you set the Clip property on […]

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This drove me crazy for about half an hour… 
I attached this style to a button
<Style x:Key=”NavButtonStyle” TargetType=”Button”>
<Setter Property=”Opacity” Value=”0.8″></Setter>
<Setter Property=”Template”>
<Setter.Value>
<ControlTemplate>
[…]

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Here is a quick tip.  If you have the following Enum
Enum Frequencies
DAILY
WEEKLY
MONTHLY
End Enum

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { […]

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